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From the books referring to the earlier Buddhist period stone seems to have been used only for pillars, walls and stair cases. A palace of stone is once mentioned in a fairy land⁴. According to Rhys Davids, “the superstructure at least, of all dwellings was either of wood-work or brick-work. In either case it was often covered, both internally and externally, with fine chunam plaster-works, and brilliantly painted in fresco, with figures or patterns, four of which have been preserved, namely, wreath-work, creeper-work, fine-ribbon-work and dragon’s-tooth-work.⁵ When the figures predominated the result is often called a picture-gallery (*chittāgāra*).”⁶